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Nah, Viktor wasn't drunk when that was taken (by me, for the record), and just having met him, I can't say that I find his facial expression peculiar at all.

The name of that drink was le Sang du Dragon, [lə sã dzʏ dʁagɒ̃ɔ̃] or somesuch.

It's pronounced [ˈbiβe]

Astraios wrote:

brandrinn wrote:Doesn't [sk] become [ek] in French?

Only initially.

As part of the larger change of Ø > e / #_sC, e.g. étoile < estoile < stella, which occured in most Western Romance languages (cf. Spanish estrella). The French s > Ø / _C (or at least something similar) is a later change.

vecfaranti wrote:What are you talking about?

http://zompist.wordpress.com/2011/07/15 ... cal-atlas/

adder wrote:Also, I might be wrong. I can't really find the source. :(

Tbh I hope there isn't such a source to be found, because the 2ppl endings most certainly didn't remain into the 1970s in the standard language :)

You often don't do capitalization on the internet in casual contexts, people get it wrong all the time in real life, and separated compounds can be seen everywhere today, not only the internet. It may be noted that this is essentially how German was written in the early modern period, so what goes ...

I have a sound change in a conlang where [ð] becomes [j] before front vowels and [ʋ] everywhere else, and dialectically it becomes [w] before /u/. This is reasonable, right? Didn't something similar happen with Faroese? Contrarily to what's been said on the board at least twice this last week, I be...

I wish Aszev were writing this thread. Otherwise it's like trying to learn English from Viktor :( <3 Aszev does know a lot about Swedish, altho as I recall he also has some particular ideas of how things should be done. Come to think of it, I suppose I do too. It's true he would be an asset, but I ...

Drydic Guy wrote:Seriously. Go fuck up your own language, GTFO of mine.

YngNghymru wrote:he makes a good point, please stop thinking you can spell English however you want

Way to be lenient with someone making one single typo/mistake in a non-native language.

In Swedish, I usually just go with something like skapat [tungo]mål ('created language'), lek[tungo]mål ('play language') or something along those lines, or just rephrase it; 'detta är ett [tungo]mål som jag [ha'r] skapat/byggt' ('this is a language that I [have] created/built'). And those of us wh...

For French I know of conlang, idéolangue, artlangue, forgelangue, going from more to less common if I'm not completely mistaken.

Hellquist's etymological dictionary claims that the newer meaning of the word was probably already present in Middle Low German.

It's probably because of the smörgåsbord title.

Yep, pretty much, although I'm not sure I'd say ' fansen ' is a special case, as there are more -sen forms out there. Most words that come to mind seem to be unassimilated ones though, e.g. kidsen , bratsen . Also I double checked your question no. 1, so I can confirm the -n being the original defin...

1) If my memory doesn't fail me, the plural -n for neuter words ending in a vowel is the definite form that has been reanalyzed into a plural marker. 2) As for greek and latin plurals, most people would colloquially not use them, and even reanalyze them as different words. E.g. faktum and fakta woul...

I could write about making/deriving an a posteriori language belonging to an Earthly language family.

It reminds me of a nowadays rather common construction we have in Swedish. "One each" used to be var sin each PRON.3PS.REFL "each their (own)" but was commonly misinterpreted as vars en (???) one "for each, one" which is really much more useful, because now you can also say vars två "for each, two"...

Fwiw I don't think you look particularily undernourished Astraios, you just look like a thin person.

Magb supplied some nice info on the /d:/ area!

Also I made a slight mistake due to misremembering some etymologies at 5am in the morning, Gotland doesn't have any /d:/ from /l:/, so I've corrected that.

Time to bump this with a fresh isogloss map!

You know you want it.

Both #1 and #20 (both of which always crop up on these lists) can be adequately translated with the Welsh hiraeth (which never crops up on any list.) As well as the Portuguese saudade and the Cornish hireth . Also, Schadenfreude is skadeglädje in Swedish. That's a calque borrowing, though. That has...

http://bin.arnastofnun.is/leit.php?id=475966

Does that help?

I looked up a few words from different stems and it seems pretty random to me what words get this -u, but it doesn't seem to be more than a handful anyway.

Apparently 9 days was enough to get it to northern Europe, got it today!

Meh they're sending it by rowboat so I won't get mine for another month.

phaed wrote:I'm interested also in Old Norse -> Icelandic and Old Norse -> Swedish, Danish, or Norwegian, if anybody has information on those.

I'm reasonably well versed in these, in case you need anything specific.